Reply to: Huge gas fields discovered under Blackpool

[TimberWolf]

I thought they'd stopped fracking cos of the tremors

frackin hell

where people living close to fracking sites have been filmed setting fire to tap water contaminated with methane gas.

Gas and water piped to your door. There's just no pleasing some people.

[Troll]

You've got to be fracking kidding.

I thought they'd stopped fracking cos of the tremors

frackin hell

[PAH]

She looks like she could be dirty

Looks like she could also be the type to keep an ice pick under the bed.

A classic dilemma that man has pondered for centuries.

[PAH]

Battlestar Galactica...

Wrong. That was "Frak".

[TimberWolf]

Battlestar Galactica...

Frell was probably the profanity I was thinking of used in Farscape.

I wouldn't mind frelling Claudia Black:



She looks like she could be dirty

[PAH]

Originally originated with Yosemite Sam in the Bugs Bunny cartoons as one of his muttered grumblings whenever Bugs got the better of him. Goes back to 1945.

There's cave drawings going back to the dawn of man where the phrase is mentioned. Not spelled in English though, but with pictures of cavemen whacking their thumbs with the flint.

[AtW]

Was that the swear word used on Lexx or Farscape?

Battlestar Galactica...

[DaveB]

Dunno. Not watched either. It was used (and originated) in Battlestar Galactica though, since the late 70s.

Originally originated with Yosemite Sam in the Bugs Bunny cartoons as one of his muttered grumblings whenever Bugs got the better of him. Goes back to 1945.

[PAH]

Was that the swear word used on Lexx or Farscape?

Dunno. Not watched either. It was used (and originated) in Battlestar Galactica though, since the late 70s.

[DodgyAgent]

Could be massive, 2000 decent jobs + same number again in surrounding economy, sounds good to me. Don't sweat the small earth shaking, nothing to worry about....probably.

Yep. I've already lined up an ad in the Warsaw gazette

[lukemg]

Could be massive, 2000 decent jobs + same number again in surrounding economy, sounds good to me. Don't sweat a bit of earth shaking, nothing to worry about....probably.

[DaveB]

The only downside seems to be that Blackpool will get more earthquakes than normal and will disappear into a giant sink hole and that the water will taste funny. And that carbon thing.



Boomed.

BBC News - Shale gas firm finds 'vast' gas resources in Lancashire
U.K. Gets Big Shale-Gas Find - WSJ.com

Blackpool? Hmmm....

Anyone got a match?

[TimberWolf]

You've got to be fracking kidding.

Was that the swear word used on Lexx or Farscape?

[PAH]

You've got to be fracking kidding.

Cuadrilla Resources began testing for gas on the Fylde Coast in March, using a technique known as "fracking".

[xoggoth]

So that's why they built that big land drilling rig there. There must be loads of gas or oil under Paris.